In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:24:17 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Don't you remember this item? > >Castleman and his team -- which includes *Samuel Peppernick*, a former Penn >State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific >Northwest National Laboratory, and *Dasitha Gunaratne*, a Penn State >graduate student -- used a technique, called photoelectron imaging >spectroscopy, to examine similarities between titanium monoxide and nickel, >zirconium monoxide and palladium, and tungsten carbide and platinum. >"Photoelectron spectroscopy measures the energy it takes to remove >electrons from various electronic states of atoms or molecules, while >simultaneously capturing snapshots of these electron-detachment events with >a digital camera," said Castleman. "The method allows us to determine the >binding energies of the electrons and also to observe directly the nature >of the orbitals in which the electrons resided before they were detached. >We found that the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a >titanium-monoxide molecule is the same as the amount of energy required to >remove electrons from a nickel atom. The same is true for the systems >zirconium monoxide and palladium and tungsten carbide and platinum. The >key is that all of the pairs are composed of isoelectronic species, which >are atoms with the same electron configuration." Castleman noted that, in >this case, the term isoelectronic refers to the number of electrons present >in the outer shell of an atom or molecule. > >This means that titanium monoxide can replace nickel in LENR, > >zirconium monoxide and palladium etc.
...you are assuming that only the electron configuration is important. If the Ni takes part in a nuclear reaction, the electron configuration may not be the only important aspect. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
